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Is it possible to disable the GNOME (version 2) global keyboard shortcuts for a specific application?

I'm using the IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE under Ubuntu however some of the IDEA default keyboard shortcuts conflict with the GNOME shortcuts (e.g. Alt+F1, Ctrl+Alt+→ or Ctrl+Alt+←). I really don't want to change the conflicting shortcuts within IDEA. I need to use the default keymap for "compatibility" reasons.

I'm thinking of some kind of proxy command that redirects every keyboard activity to the application when it has the focus. Something like kbdproxy idea.sh.

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The latter two for workspace switching is possible to be disabled , download and install gconf-editor , locate this entry:

move_to_workspace

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And leave them empty should work.

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These two shortcuts were just examples. There are others that conflict, too. I don't think it's a good solution to disable the conflicting GNOME shortcuts :-/ I still want to be able to use them outside of the application. – Sven Oct 13 '11 at 13:01
@Sven , You probably want to fire a bug report to the developers , ask them to grab all key events in X11. – warl0ck Oct 13 '11 at 15:05

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